Subj : Re: dereferenced object
To   : Thibaut <i_doz_not@hotmail.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Fri Apr 16 2004 12:03 pm

Thibaut wrote:
> I'm implementing the dom with spidermonkey.
> i wrote the function specified below and it works fine but i have a problem
> this function is applied to a childNodes object.
> when i want to call item, i write:
> childNodes.item(my_index)
>  and it returns me the element at the index "my_index".
> childNodes is an object with the property "liste" which is an ArrayObject
> this is my question :
> i want that when i  write childNodes[my_index] it does the same job as
> childNodes.item(my_index)
> How can i do that in spidermonkey ??


Use the JSClass.getProperty hook for childNodes' class.  It should 
handle id parameters for which JSVAL_IS_INT(id) evaluates to true and 
JSVAL_TO_INT(id) is >= 0 and < the length of the array.

BTW, why are you writing your own DOM implementation?

/be

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